The Research Data Center (RDC) “International Survey Programmes“ provides researchers with data, services, and consultation on a number of important international study series which are under intensive curation by GESIS. They all cover numerous countries and, quite often, substantial time spans. The RDC provides optimal data preparation and access to a wide scope of data and topics for comparative analysis. 

Access to analysis data and documentation

... in the context of the GESIS data service:

• International Social Survey Programme - ISSP
• European Values Study - EVS
• Eurobarometer - EB, CCEB, CEEB
• European Election Studies - EES

... in the context of cooperations:

• CSES - Comparative Study of Electoral Systems
• PIREDEU - Providing an Infrastructure for  Research on Electoral Democracy in the European Union (EES 2009) 

... for GESIS research visitors:

• Latinobarometer - free access to the primary data of all waves
  
  

Consultation and knowledge transfer

Beyond providing the mere availability of the study data, the services of the RDC focus on reducing the problems that users would usually have due to issues of comparability over space and time. Such issues lead to a high demand for consultation and specialist knowledge. The RDC provides references to relevant publications, textbooks and related analysis data.

References to international survey data

A tabular overview of of international comparative survey programmes references over 60 large scale studies and study series since 1948 and based on population samples. In part they are also available through the GESIS standard data service.